Sunday, 4 April 2021

Digging A Duck Blind At Spurn


Written for Paul Brookes' ekphrastic challenge - one poem a day in April 2021. 
 
The art work for this day is "Craggs Cubley Digging a Duck Blind at Spurn" by John Law
 

 
 
Digging A Duck Blind At Spurn
 
Out here the land thins.
A permeable gauze, half sea,
liquid salt in its veins. 
 
He digs quickly. He hears the ocean
whispering "take your time,
we'll get there in the end"

The breeze whips up, a light
spray falls in the hole. The spade
takes another bite. Behind
 
him the sound of birds
melds with water and wind.
Out here the land thins.

Tim Fellows 4th April 2021 


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